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REVOLVING JAIL.

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Attorneys Patented July 30, 1889.

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EDIVARD ROIVE, OF INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA.

REVOLVING JAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,877, dated July 30,1889.

Application filed November 2, 1886. Serial No. 217,840$- (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LEDWARD ROWE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Indiana, in the county of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Jails;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my invention in verticallongitudinal section. Fig- 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same.Fig. 3 represents a transverse section on the line a: 00 of Fig. 1. Fig.4 is a detail sectional view of the float-ball and connected parts.

My invention relates to revolving jails and other revolving or rotarybuildings; and it consists in the construction and novel combination ofparts, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The objects of my invention are to introduce water into revolving orrotary jails and other revolving structures, and to remove the soil fromwater-closets in the said structures in such a manner that a perfectventilation of the water-closets and the soil-pipes connected therewithmay be had, in order to improve the sanitary condition of such rotaryjail or other structure.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a jail-building, which may be any required numbers of stories in height. Bdesignates the circular cell-structure, the tiers of cells in whichpreferably correspond to the number of stories in the jailbuilding.

I provide ten or a lesser number of cells C in each tier.

D is the smoke-stack, which is located at the center of thecell-structure and extends from the furnace below the cell-structure upand out through the roof of the building.

E designates the ventilating-shaft, which surround s the smoke-stack Dand extends from the furnace-room beneath the cell-structure up throughthe roof of the building.

The cell-structure is supported by the conical rollers M, and isprovided below with the guide-rollers G, which move on the track or railH.

J J are rods bolted at their lower ends to the revolving cell-structureand connected at the upper ends, which are tapped, by turnbuckles to therods K, which are secured at their upper ends to the flanged annularbearing-cap L, encircling the ventilating-shaft and resting on theconical rollers M, which are supported by the flanged. track N, securelybolted to the ventilator-shaft.

a is a small iron water-pipe which is run either up or down the centralcast-iron column E and conducts the Water to avalve b, which isregulated by a float-ball c and empties the water into the annularservice-tank d. This tank (Z is attached to the jail and moves aroundwhen the latter is rotated; but the float-ball c, valve 1), and pipe aremain stationary. From this tank d water is conveyed by the pipe 6 tothe service-pipe e, which extends entirely around the well-hole and isconnected to the bottoms of the flushing-tanks f at every cell. It mayalso be used in any other kind of a closet using no flushin -tank.

WVhen the closets are flushed, the soil runs into the sealed annular panG, the lower part of which is stationary and is practically the same asthat in general use, with the exception, however, that the pan has achannel H cut around each side, which is kept filled with waterautomatically by means of the pipes x descending from the tank cl andbranched at its lower end to straddle the annular pan G.

y y are valves in the pipes m 00, each provided with a lever 2, which isoperated by the cam Z on the column E as the cell-structure revolvesaround the said column, so asto open the valve and allow water to flowinto the channels H. All excess of water in the channel H runs over theinside wall of the channel H. The cap 2', which revolves with the jail,fits or dips into the water in the channel H and makes a perfect seal,and, although it revolves, will prevent any air or smell from passingthe soil-pipej, as the air and odor pass into the iron column and arecarried to the roof and escape above it.

The cells are rotated by steam-power or water-power, as may be deemedmost desirable, and the power is connect-ed thereto in any suitablemanner.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, v

1. The combination, with a stationary building or structureprovided'with a central ventilating-shaft, an incased smoke-flue andsoilplpes located in said ventilating-shaft, of the revolving cells, theflushing-tank, a servicetank having a valve-and-ball float, the downpipes, closet-basins having flushing-pipes, the water-sealed pans, andthe connecting soilpipes leading to the incased soil-pipes,substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the building provided with the revolving cells,basins, and the

